200 Best Tupac Quotes about Life, Love, Women, Friends

Tupac Amaru Shakur, popularly known by the stage name 2pac and briefly as Makaveli was born in New York City in 1971. He was an American rapper, an actor as well as a social activist. During his time, he was such a successful hip-hop legend with most of his lyrics filled with controversies, always talking about life in the ghetto and also using his lyrics to attack most of his gangsta enemies. He lived a violent life which led to him being shot and killed in Las Vegas Nevada in 1996. Despite the controversies surrounding his life and death, he will always be remembered for the inspirational and motivating quotes he used, most of them you will find in his lyrics. Here are some of the best Tupac quotes that might interest you.

1. All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me. Tupac Shakur

3. I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect. Tupac Shakur

4. It’s a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us. Tupac Shakur

I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for

5. them, to have answers. Tupac Shakur

6. If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys’ home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center. Tupac Shakur

7. I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable. Tupac Shakur

8. If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East. Tupac Shakur

9. With all my fans I got a family again. Tupac Shakur

10. I’m a reflection of the community. Tupac Shakur

11. I’ll probably be punished for hard living. Tupac Shakur

12. When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character. Tupac Shakur

13. We were young and we were dumb, but we had a heart. — Tupac Shakur

14. Many dreams are what we had and plenty wishes. — Tupac Shakur

15. They got money for the war but can’t feed the poor. — Tupac Shakur

16. There’s gon’ be some stuff you see that’s gonna make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humour, you gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. — Tupac Shakur

17. Everybody’s at war with different things. I’m at war with my own heart sometimes. — Tupac Shakur

18. Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender. — Tupac Shakur

19. That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don’t see why everybody feel as though that they gotta tell me how to live my life. — Tupac Shakur

20.“Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humour; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.” ― Tupac Shakur

21. Forgive but don’t forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you “you ain’t nothing”, don’t believe him. And if he can’t learn to love you, you should leave him.

22. My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ Tupac Shakur

23. Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. Tupac Shakur

24. It’s the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they’re gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it’s my turn to leave. Tupac Shakur

25. What I learned in jail is that I can’t change. I can’t live a different lifestyle – this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made. Tupac Shakur

Interesting Tupac Quotes

26. I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn’t commit. Tupac Shakur

27. The only time I have problems is when I sleep. Tupac Shakur

28. I just don’t know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life. Tupac Shakur

29. In my mind I’m a blind man doin’ time. Tupac Shakur

30. Let the Lord judge the criminals. Tupac Shakur

31. Dre was one of my heroes in the music industry. If he’s not down for his homeboys, I don’t wanna be a part of him or around him. Tupac Shakur

32. I don’t have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail. Tupac Shakur

33. America wants its respect. Tupac Shakur

34. I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren’t honorable. Tupac Shakur

35. Thug Life to me is dead. Tupac Shakur

36. I am society’s child. This is how they made me and now I’m sayin’ what’s on my mind and they don’t want that. This is what you made me, America. — Tupac Shakur

37. I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings. — Tupac Shakur

38. If God wanted me to be quiet he would’ve never showed me what he does. — Tupac Shakur

39. I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that’s bad, I’m going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I’m doing is right. So I feel like I’m going to heaven. — Tupac Shakur

40. I don’t have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated. Tupac Shakur

41 It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down. Tupac Shakur

42. Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine? Tupac Shakur

43. I’m 23 years old. I might just be my mother’s child, but in all reality, I’m everybody’s child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society. Tupac Shakur

44. I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That’s bad. Tupac Shakur

45. The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams. Tupac Shakur

46. Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care? Tupac Shakur

47. We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins. Tupac Shakur

48. There’s nobody in the business strong enough to scare me. Tupac Shakur

Tupac Quotes About Love – Tupac Love Quotes

51. “I think I came to the conclusion I’m giving up on love and relationships.”~ Unknown

52. “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”~ Mother Teresa Of Calcutta

53. “Everything’s a gamble, love most of all.”~ Tess Gerritsen

54. “Get out of my head and fall into my arms instead.”~ One Direction

55. “What did I do wrong was a question that remained unanswered for 2 years. I’ll remember that moment forever. You never know what I was going to do as you said the last two words to me.”~ Unknown

56. “One is never prepared for the loss of a loved one.”~ Unknown

57. “Never look back. If Cinderella had went back to pick up her shoe, she wouldn’t have become a princess.”~ Unknown

58. “Some people are just bad news. Even if you love them, they aren’t good for your life. Give them time to grow up.”~ Unknown

59. “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.”~ William Shakespeare

60. “Its confusing when you can’t determine if the signs are for you to give up or just a test to see how long you could hold on.”~ Unknown

62. “Nothing hurts more than watching the one you love, the one you want so bad, be in love with someone else and all you can do is sit there and watch and pretend everything’s alright.”~ Shannon Ataahua Murph

63. You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.”~ Julie de Lespinasse

64. “Another month. Another year. Another smile. Another tear. Another winter and another summer too. But there can never be another you.”~ Unknown

65. “There are those rare moments in life when you are touched with so much love that you begin to realize how beautiful life really is.There are rare moments in life when you are touched with so much love that you begin to realize how beautiful life really is.”~ Unknown

66. “Sometimes I forget that I’m not suppose to love you anymore.”~ Unknown

67. “Baby, if you were words on a page, you’d be what they call fine print.”~ Unknown

68. If God takes someone out of your life he did it for a reason, stop looking back trying to put them back in it.”~ Unknown

69. “The secret to life. one can only see clearly with the heart. Anything that is essential is invisible to the eyes. How much time and effort you’ve spent on someone or something is what makes them so important.”~ Michael Krol

70. “The loss of a loved one turns our life upside down. Our world as we knew it has changed and those changes require that we in turn adjust to a new normal.”~ Unknown

71. “We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”~ Anonymous

72. “Be great, make the best life for your family!”~ Soulja Boy

73. “I’m just one of those hopelessly romantic people so I don’t think I’ll ever run out of stories. I’m always looking for love. But I’m afraid now – by doing what I do – I’ve missed my chance to ever find it. That I’m destined to get burned again and again.”~ Chris Carrabba

74. “The more you think about things, the weirder they seem. Take this milk. Why do we drink *cow* milk?? Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze ’em!?”~ Bill Watterson

75. “Every girl has three guys in her life: the one she loves, hates, and the one she can’t live without. In the end, they’re all the same guy.”~ Unknown

89. “Why is it that I finally convince my mind that I am over you, then I see you and my heart takes over and screws everything up? why do you have that power over me if we cannot be together?”~ Kristina

90. “I hate love, because I don’t have love.”~ Unknown

91. “Regret the times you’ve said ‘i love you’ without knowing what REALLY loving someone is like.”~ Unknown

92. “When mistrust comes in, love goes out.”~ Irish Sayings

93. “I’m not angry that you won’t come back, I’m sad because I keep hoping you will.”~ Unknown

94. “Always falling too deep in a relationship, always ending up being the one that’s hurt the most.”~ Unknown

95. “In relationships, arguments are simply a test to see if a couple is strong enough to overcome it, It’s what defines true Love.”~ Unknown

96. “The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye…until we meet again.”~ Jimi Hendrix

97. “I’m done talking since you’re not listening, continue to hang out with them nothing ass bitches, then!”~ Unknown

98. “If only you could delete feelings the same way you delete text messages.”~ Unknown

99. “The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.”~ Jewish Proverb

106. All I see is racist faces, misplaced hate makes disgrace for races we under, I wonder what it takes to make this one better place.

107. You know it’s funny when it rains it pours. They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.

108. We might fight amongst each other, but I promise you this; we’ll burn this bitch down get us pissed

109. This fast life soon shatters; cause after all the lights and screams; nothing but my dreams matter

110. I wake up in the morning and ask myself; is life worth living should I blast myself?

111. Ain’t a woman alive that can take my momma’s place

112. Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real

113. During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.

114. Unconditional love. Talking about the stuff that doesn’t wear off, it doesn’t fade. It’ll last for all these crazy days, these crazy nights. Whether you wrong or you right, I’mma still love you, still feel you, still there for you. No matter what, you will always be in my heart with unconditional love

115. Though things change, the future’s still inside of me.

116. What you won’t do — do for love. You tried everything, but you don’t get love

117. I want to take your misery; replace it with happiness, but I need your faith in me

120. Why am I fighting to live, if I’m just living to fight. Why am I trying to see, when there ain’t nothing in sight. Why am I trying to give, when no one gives me a try. Why am I dying to live, if I’m just living to die?

121. Got me starin’ at the world through my rearview.

122. For every dark night, there’s a brighter day.

123. I’d rather die like a man than live like a coward.

124. My only fear of death is coming back reincarnated

125. My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.

126. The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams

127. Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

128. But now that you’re gone, I’m in the zone thinking I don’t wanna die all alone

129. It’s like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grows and the rose petal got all kinda scratches and marks, you ain’t gonna say “damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete..” you gonna be like “DAMN! a ROSE grew from the CONCRETE

130. I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there’s a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up, and handle it

131. I know death follows me, but I murder him first

132. Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end, no matter how hard we fight

133. What people do for the struggle of power is madness

134. From now on, it’s not going to be a strictly black thing with me. I apologised to Quincy Jones for the stuff I said about him and his wives.

135. You never know what’s going on in somebody’s mind. There’s a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch it.

136. You just can’t be calling us fakers and pretenders and non-creative and say we can’t freestyle.

137. You can’t disrespect the love. You can’t disrespect the peace treaty.

138. I don’t have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.

139. I do not suggest that children buy this album. There’s a lot of cursing. There’s a lot of raw game that needs to be discussed in a family moment before you let them listen.

140. I can make my way in this business besides rapping.

141. I don’t have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

142. The first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you’ve been smoking weed for as long as I have and then you stop. I didn’t know myself.

143. The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

144. Sometimes when I’m drunk I think to myself, Should I just stop trying and give up? They’re waiting for me to give up. So this is just a fun little game that I cry at some time.

145. The Bay is the type of place where if you ain’t there, they’re gonna talk about you.

146. The addict in Tupac is dead. The excuse maker in Tupac is dead. The vengeful Tupac is dead. God let me live for me to do something extremely extraordinary.

147. Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain’t no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.

148. Every female wanna come up to me and show me how much they’re not attracted to me… these minority women… they’re the only women I can get cause everyone else is scared of me.

149. Whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to be at me. They’re going to come 100 percent.

150. When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

151. When I dis y’all, it’s not because I’m ungrateful, it’s because I’m nervous. I’m paranoid, I just got out of jail. I’ve been shot, cheated, lied and framed.

152. I ain’t a killer but don’t push me, revenge is like the sweetest joy next to getting pussy

153. I’m not saying I’m gonna rule the world, or that I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

157. All the stuff I say in my rhymes I say because of how I grew up. So instead of going to a psychiatrist, I got a kids’ group that deals with the problems a younger generation is going through.

158. Death Row East is gonna be a personification of what we did on the West Side. We gonna prove once that all these people talking ’bout an East Coast-West Coast war.

159. Don’t change on me. Don’t extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

160. Dre was one of my heroes in the music industry. If he’s not down for his homeboys, I don’t wanna be a part of him or around him.

161. What I learned in jail is that I can’t change. I can’t live a different lifestyle-this is it? This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

162. We already run these streets out here. We got the ways to make them use their talents to the maximum effect. And that’s what it’s about.

163. We are together as black men-they over there, we over here. If we really gonna live in peace, we all can’t be in the same room.

164. Thug Life to me is dead.

165. Puffy wrote me while I was in jail. I wrote him back that I got no problems with him. I don’t want it to be fighting, I just wanna make my money.

166. People on the East coast are really proud and real cultural and real strong like we are on the west coast.

167. Nobody ever came to save me. They just watch what happen to you.

168. My music will mean something. I’ll have my own production company. I’m doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand.

169. If anybody finds Janet, tell her I’m looking for her. She ain’t my enemy. I want her to know that. She met me at a time in my life when I was really immature.

170. You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened . . . or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the f* on

171. We were young and we were dumb, but we had heart

172. No matter what these people say about me, my music does not glorify any image, my music is spiritual if you listen to it. It’s all about emotion, it’s all about life.

173. Watch people, because you can fake for a long time, but one day you’re gonna show yourself to be a phoney.

174. Measure a man by his actions fully, from the beginning to the end.

175. I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle. I make mistakes but learn from everyone and when it’s said and done, I bet this brother be a better one. If I upset you don’t stress. Never forget, that God isn’t finished with me yet

176. Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

177. If we really are saying that rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you are saying, it doesn’t matter that you didn’t make them die it just matters that you didn’t save them.

178. One thing we all adore, something worth dying for, nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame

Famous Tupac Quotes

179. “When will there be peace on earth?

180. “I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that’s bad, I’m going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I’m doing is right. So I feel like I’m going to heaven.”

181. “Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I`m not the thief who grabs your purse.I`m not the guy who jacks your car. I`m not down with the people who steal and hurt others. I`m just a brother who fights back.”

182. “Even a genius has his questions.”

183. “I’d rather die like a man than live like a coward”

184. “Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the Lord do his thing.”

185. “Why am I Dying to Live, when I’m just living to die, why am I trying to see when there ain’t nothing in sight, why am I trying to give when no one gives me a try.”

186. “I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?”

187. “I’d rather die like a man than live like a coward”

188. “Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the Lord do his thing.”

189. “During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams”

190. “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve would’ve happened…or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”

191. “I don’t mean to sound sleezy but tease me I don’t want it if it’s that easy.”

192. Tthere is gonna be some stuff you gonna see thats gonna make it hard to smile in the future, but through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain you gotta keep your sense of humor. you gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit…remember that.”

193. “Life’s a wheel of fortune and it’s my chance to spin it”

194. “The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.”

195. “It’s like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinda scratches and marks, you ain’t gonna say “damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete..” you gonna be like “DAMN! a ROSE grew from the concrete?””

196. “Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?”

197. “I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing, through every dark night, theres a bright day after that,so no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up…. and handle it.”

198. “we wouldn’t ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how”

199. “A coward dies a thousand deaths… a soldier dies but once.”

200. “If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you it’s yours. If it doesn’t, it never was.”